(on Wikipedia)
https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/polipo/
A small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a proxy server).
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/polipo/
A small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a proxy server).
https://launchpad.net/sakura
https://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura
A decent little terminal emulator.
I don’t generally use it, but it’s on the short list of terminals I’ll use if others aren’t readily available.
Software > Text editors >
https://sourceforge.net/projects/beaver-editor/
https://beaver-editor.sourceforge.net/
A text editor.
I like it in general. It’s on par with mousepad and Leafpad, although of the three, leafpad reserves the least amount of memory.
Abandoned.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190922094853/http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/
Allows one to use RSS with an email client.
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.smplayer.info/
SMPlayer is yet another front end for the famous and awesome media player MPlayer. Well, it would be awesome if it wasn’t so UNIX-like that it desperately needed to have a front end made. Still, it’s awesome now that it has a real one.
A frontend for MPlayer.
I use this to supplement VLC
TODO – I saved some notes somewhere, which should be posted up here
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(on Wikipedia)
http://moc.daper.net/
A decent console music player, which I occasionally use for oldschool music on my Pandora.
mocp
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Software > Web browsers >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
A web browser and feed reader.
Originally called Phoenix, then Firebird.
Shares some code with Thunderbird
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.alsa-project.org/wiki/Main_Page
An audio mixer.
Does bunches of stuff. I use it with a hotkey to do quick fiddling.
Software >
http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/
Converts PNG files to Windows icon resource files.